--- title: Taking this treasure Fiordelisa once more set herself to wait in the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Taking this treasure Fiordelisa once more set herself to wait in the great hall through which Turritella was sure to pass, and as she sat there one of the King’s pages came by, and said to her: Who acts: Taking, Turritella, King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taking, Turritella, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:5:40 # text = Taking this treasure Fiordelisa once more set herself to wait in the great hall through which Turritella was sure to pass, and as she sat there one of the King’s pages came by, and said to her: 1 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 Fiordelisa Fiordelisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 7 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 17 Turritella Turritella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | this treasure | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 2 | **set** | present | Taking | Fiordelisa | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** | to-infinitive | Taking *not said here* | | | the great hall | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location | | 4 | **is** | past | Turritella | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Turritella *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sit** | past | Turritella | one of the King's pages | | there | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 7 | **come by** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | Turritella | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 9 | **page** | | the King | | | | | | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/41/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/)